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The next time they tell you Americans are “happy” with their employer provided health insurance remember that that “happiness” is fueled by willful ignorance of what the alternatives are really like and fear of losing what little crappy health care they currently have.
View of the Obelisk of Ramesses II (r. ca. 1279-1213 BC) in the Luxor Temple.
The ancient Egyptians were originally called them tekhenu which means “to pierce” as in “to pierce the sky”.
hmm nope, txn has many meanings but not ‘to pierce’
Like many things in Ancient Egypt, ‘obelisk’ is the Greek word for this structure, and Teken is the original Egyptian name. Teken literally just means the same as obelisk.
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